Author Michael L Weiss Traveling to the Golan brings up many memories and emotions for me having spent so many years in the middle east and traveling to hot spots around the world. From my point of view, the proficiency and staunch determination of the Israeli Military in capturing and then later defending and repulsing a […]
By Susan Hirschbiel At the beginning of our trip Bob Henley suggested that each of us would be experiencing “a moment.” As I am fortunate to be on my second visit to this Holy Land I knew what he meant. Last visit I was overcome with emotion as we arrived at the Western Wall in time to […]
By Michael L Weiss “People who love to eat are the best people” -Julia Childs The question is, what do you get when you combine Middle Eastern, North African, Russian, German, Spanish, Persian, and Polish food cultures? Well, that is easy, it is Israeli Cooking. While I knew of the richness of Israel’s past, I […]
Preface: Pastor Henley (Bob) and his wife Jane led us on this multifaith study program to Israel. During the past two years, I came to know Bob seeing him at Ocean Reef functions from time to time. My first introduction to Bob was when I attended a multifaith Bible class that he held on the […]
Author: Michael L Weiss It’s hard to put in words the emotional bonds the Jewish people have with Jerusalem, home to King David’s City, and the location of the sacred Temple. While our Christian friends who we have traveled with on this study tour are excited to see the city, and I recognize the importance […]
Author: Esther Lerner Carrico Edited by Michael Weiss One of our trip highlights was a boat ride on the Sea of Galilee where in the New Testament Jesus spent time with his disciples teaching the poor to fish and feed their families. The vessel we boarded was designed to have some visual features of the […]
Author: Michael L Weiss Well, you can’t talk about Jericho without singing the song right? Here we are, in the oldest inhabited city in the world and includes what is believed to be the oldest stone guard tower in the world, the oldest protective walls of the city, and if that is enough of all […]
By Susan Hirschbiel & Michael L Weiss To change this up just a little, we are going to try something new, a dual perspective of the sites we visited. This will not be the famous SNL skit featuring Jane Curtain and Chevy Chase as we both see pretty much eye to eye however, now that […]
The Dead Sea has many names in Hebrew it is known as Yam Ha-Melah (The Salt Sea) in Arabic it is called Al-Bahr Al Mayyit (Sea of Death), and at one time it has was called the Sea of Sodom, referring to the destruction found in the story of Sodom and Gomorrah. By any name, […]
Hello from 1400 feet below sea level at the Dead Sea. Here in Israel the geography is described as near the Dead/Red or Med as in Dead Sea/Red Sea or Mediterranean Sea. This an incredibly quiet, peaceful and noncommercial place, bordered by Jordan. We took the requisite plunge covered in Mud, hopefully photos will not be viewed by […]